Alexander Ludwig

A young Canadian actor, Alexander Ludwig landed the starring role of Will Stanton, a 14-year-old who discovers he is the last hope to save the world in the fantasy adventure "The Seeker: The Dark is R...
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Actor Alexander Ludwig has landed a new role as a brand ambassador for jewellery and luxury goods company Bulgari.
The Lone Survivor star, who also played Cato in The Hunger Games, joined his fellow Bulgari spokesman, Eric Bana, and the design firm's muse, singer and former French First Lady Carla Bruni, at a party in Paris, France on Tuesday night (08Jul14) to celebrate his new appointment, which was announced during the city's haute couture fashion week.
Ludwig, 22, says, "I feel very privileged to be associated with such an incredibly prestigious brand. I've long admired its tradition of impeccable design and it is also very appealing to me because the product is very youthful and modern. "I am also proud of their fundraising work on behalf of Save the Children and look forward to working more closely on their humanitarian projects in the near future."
Oscar winner Jared Leto, The Vampire Diaries beauty Nina Dobrev and Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto were also in attendance at the party.

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What’s a dystopian novel without a post-apocalyptic world? In Panem, life is truly tough the further you live from the fashion-conscious Capitol. In case you needed a refresher, Panem is split up into 12 districts (we don’t talk about district 13) and a glittering and wealthy capital city.
Taking a page from The Colbert Report, this ongoing “Better Know a District” series will take a look at the districts that make up the brutal world of The Hunger Games.
Welcome To District 9: Carbs, Carbs, Carbs!
Industry: District 9 is known as Panem’s “bread bowl.” This district is best known for its amber waves of grain and its production of bread that residents are probably too poor to afford.
Notable Residents: District 9 is one of the districts least talked about in the books and films. None of the District 9 contestants in The Hunger Games are named, although Katniss does have a run-in with one tribute in the 74th annual Hunger Games. She and the District 9 tribute go for the same backpack, put the District 9 tribute ends up with a knife in the back courtesy of Clove. Ouch!
How Hungry? Like the other far-flung districts, District 9 is not very wealthy. The district is mostly made up of farms and factories for grain processing and storage.
Hunger Games Prospects: District 9 is probably one of the worst districts when it comes to prospects within the games. The tributes almost always die in the initial bloodbath on the first day. Since the district is far away from the Capitol, tributes aren’t afforded the training that career tributes enjoy. Even worse, District 9 is also more urban than some of the other outlying districts, giving them a distinct disadvantage in nature-filled arenas.
Which District is your favorite? Sound off in the comments!
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WENN.comIt now seems difficult to imagine anyone other than Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson in the lead roles of The Hunger Games. But due to the phenomenal success of the novels, the majority of the cast faced super-tough competition to land a part in the film. Here's a look at five characters who in an alternate universe would have been played by somebody completely different.Katniss EverdeenAround 50 actors reportedly auditioned for the series' hero, the most high-profile of which were Abigail Breslin, Chloe Grace Moretz, Hailee Steinfeld and Emily Browning. The last of these shares something in common with J-Law: both actresses had previously missed out on the role of Bella in Twilight.Peeta MellarkAmerican Horror Story's Evan Peters, X-Men: First Class' Lucas Till and Magic Mike's Alex Pettyfer were all in contention for the male lead, as were Liam Hemsworth and Alexander Ludwig, both of whom of course went onto play Gale and Cato respectively.Gale HawthorneHad Miley Cyrus' ex been cast as Peeta instead, then Arrow star Robbie Amell, Disney Channel graduate David Henrie and former Hannah Montana regular Drew Roy would all have been poised to take his place.Haymitch AbernathyAccording to various sources, John C. Reilly was in the frame to play the middle-aged victor of the 50th Hunger Games until Woody Harrelson was selected ahead of his fellow Oscar nominee at the last minute.Finnick OdairDespite publicly professing his love for the series, Glee actor Grant Gustin missed out on the role of District 4 tribute Finnick Odair, who will first be seen onscreen in Catching Fire, to Pirates Of The Caribbean star Sam Claflin.
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The scene that best identifies the original Grown Ups, Happy Madison's 2010 wrangling of Adam Sandler and his band of thieves, sees Kevin James demonstrating an ad hoc jig as an advertisement for what Sandler and wife Salma Hayek would miss if they were to leave the gang's vacation house in favor of attending a fashion industry gala in Paris. Backed by the subdued laughter of his wife and friends, Smith shimmies around for a couple of seconds, the film forgoing what might have been a more outrageous or laugh-out-loud punchline for something goofy and naturalistic. The sort of joke that a real person might make among his friends and family. And although Grown Ups might not have hit home in its delivery of this theme — just a group of old friends, hanging out and cracking wise, in a way to which everyone in the audience can relate — it... well, it tried.
The scene that best identifies Grown Ups 2? Hard to say. Maybe it's the point at which David Spade zooms across town inside of a giant tire, submitting to projectile vomit when he is finally halted by the brick wall that is Shaquille O'Neal's torso. Maybe it's the part when newbie Nick Swardson, playing some kind of sexually confused, substance-addicted Gollum, surfs the top of a school bus that his pals hijacked en route to relive the glory days at the old watering hole. It's hard to pinpoint an instance that most effectively captures the overall mood because the mood changes by the minute — the film shoots erratically from efforts at down-to-Earth, slice of life humor to moments of unabashed fantasy, like Shaq literally punting a teenager over a three-story house. It's impossible to pinpoint an instance that most effectively captures the overall plot, because that simply doesn't exist. There's a set-up, sure: Adam Sandler moves back to his hometown, and... it's summer now. Beyond that — an element that is introduced with the star having his face urinated upon by a home intruding deer — chaos.
And it's chaos in every sense of the word. Chaos in the things that happen — like the vomiting tires and the Nick Swardson and the micturating wildlife. Chaos in the fact that some things happen for no discernible reason — like Kevin James exhibiting a 5-Hour Energy addiction, Sandler and Chris Rock's high school-aged sons feigning drunkenness to fit in with a college crowd, Sandler suspecting his wife of having an affair with her aerobics instructor (Oliver Hudson). These, and a ganglion of other ostensible plotline seedlings, are planted, but never brought to blossom.
Sandler's suspicions of Hayek's adultery is introduced in one scene, set to rest in another, and ignored entirely for the hour in between. Sandler and Rock's boys dance around the prospects of befriending the partying university students but then are barely seen, and never in the company of this motif, for the rest of the film. And Kevin James' alarming 5-Hour Energy shtick? One that follows his anxiety over the way his wife is raising their children and her disapproval of how much time he prefers to spend with his mother? Never explained. In fact, none of his two theoretically daunting stories are explored whatsoever. The closest thing to a character arc that James gets in this movie is his recurring delivery of a burp-sneeze-fart combination in which he takes immense pride. That gets more screen time than the hints of marital problems strewn haphazardly throughout James' would-be story.
In fact, when the film does pay fleeting attention to what might have been some actual character work, James' wife, Maria Bello, is treated like a villain. She's a loon who enables her young son's academic shortcomings and who is showcased as the bad guy for not being more nurturing to her husband's desire to be waited on hand and foot by his mother. And truth be told, she's pretty damn nurturing to it! But not so much that his eventual free pass to spend as much time as he wishes at his mom's place, avoiding his wife and kids, is supposed to be seen as a victory.
Bello is not an outlying example of the film's misogynistic point of view. An aerobics class illustrates all attending wives — Hayek, Bello, the usually sensational Maya Rudolph — as ravenous, animalistic deviants ready and willing to cheat on their husbands with the attractive instructor, who announces he is gay to disapproving boos. Although this is only meant to express their disappointment in a lack of opportunity for sexual conquest, the homophobia does not stop there: a transexual character is made a focal point of ridicule throughout the film. And Swardson, whatever semblance of a human being he is portraying in this movie, transforms into a deplorable, bodily fluid-soaked gay joke in the third act of the film. The single consistent throughline Grown Ups 2 seems to have, in fact, is its bigotry.
With Saturday Night Live vets popping out of the woodworks in every scene, and the ridiculousness escalating as the minutes carry on for a 101-minute eternity, you might be ambitious enough to wade through all the debris of scattered non-plots and offensive material and approach every non sequitur with revived hope. "Hey, Jon Lovitz! He's funny. Maybe this gag will work." Or, "Holy shit, is that Stoen Cold Steve Austin? Awesome!" But the sparse moments of laughter never come from where you might expect, and are at best born from a morbid appreciation for the horror story that has befallen a once promising troupe. Playing David Spade's degenerate illegitimate son, Hunger Games vet Alexander Ludwig experiments with deadpan one-liners that are so bizarre in delivery, they're off-puttingly hilarious. But Grown Ups 2's comedy crown belongs to Taylor Lautner.
Scratch that. Taylor Lautner's stunt double. For, the most genuine laughter provoked by the movie comes from the frat boy character's effusive front-flips, performed throughout the suburban backdrop. So high above the rest of the movie does this unsung hero fly that we're unsure if Grown Ups 2 was constructed as a The Producers-like ploy to launch the stuntman, or perhaps Lautner, to comedy stardom, bolstering his reputation against the destruction of everyone else's.
The strangest thing about Grown Ups 2 is not its quality — we've seen bottom of the barrel movies before, and from Sandler's team for certain. What's truly strange is how far a cry it is from Grown Ups in its very nature. No longer naturalistic, emotionally-embued, or even about anything, the sequel would have made more sense as a follow-up to one of Sandler's more absurdist romps. Of course, if this was labeled as a Billy Madison sequel, then it might actually start violent riots. Like the one in this movie. Oh yeah, the whole town beats the s**t out of a bunch of kids.
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While recent animated blockbusters have aimed to viewers of all ages starting with fantastical concepts and breathtaking visuals but tackling complex emotional issues along the way Ice Age: Continental Drift is crafted especially for the wee ones — and it works. Venturing back to prehistoric times once again the fourth Ice Age film paints broad strokes on the theme of familial relationships throwing in plenty of physical comedy along the way. The movie isn't that far off from one of the many Land Before Time direct-to-video sequels: not particularly innovative or necessary but harmless thrilling fun for anyone with a sense of humor. Unless they have a particular distaste for wooly mammoths the kids will love it.
Ice Age: Continental Drift continues to snowball its cartoon roster bringing back the original film's trio (Ray Romano as Manny the Mammoth Denis Leary as Diego the Sabertooth Tiger and John Leguizamo as Sid the Sloth) new faces acquired over the course of the franchise (Queen Latifah as Manny's wife Ellie) and a handful of new characters to spice things up everyone from Nicki Minaj as Manny's daughter Steffie to Wanda Sykes as Sid's wily grandma. The whole gang is living a pleasant existence as a herd with Manny's biggest problem being playing overbearing dad to the rebellious daughter. Teen mammoths they always want to go out and play by the waterfall! Whippersnappers.
The main thrust of the film comes when Scratch the Rat (whose silent comedy routines in the vein of Tex Avery/WB cartoons continue to be the series highlight) accidentally cracks the singular continent Pangea into the world we know today. Manny Diego and Sid find themselves stranded on an iceberg once again forced on a road trip journey of survival. The rest of the herd embarks to meet them giving Steffie time to realize the true meaning of friendship with help from her mole pal Louis (Josh Gad).
The ham-handed lessons may drag for those who've passed Kindergarten but Ice Age: Continental Drift is a lot of fun when the main gang crosses paths with a group of villainous pirates. (Back then monkeys rabbits and seals were hitting the high seas together pillaging via boat-shaped icebergs. Obviously.) Quickly Ice Age becomes an old school pirate adventure complete with maritime navigation buried treasure and sword fights. Gut (Peter Dinklage) an evil ape with a deadly... fingernail leads the evil-doers who pose an entertaining threat for the familiar bunch. Jennifer Lopez pops by as Gut's second-in-command Shira the White Tiger and the film's two cats have a chase scene that should rouse even the most apathetic adults. Hearing Dinklage (of Game of Thrones fame) belt out a pirate shanty may be worth the price of admission alone.
With solid action (that doesn't need the 3D addition) cartoony animation and gags out the wazoo Ice Age: Continental Drift is entertainment to enjoy with the whole family. Revelatory? Not quite. Until we get a feature length silent film of Scratch's acorn pursuit we may never see a "classic" Ice Age film but Continental Drift keeps it together long enough to tell a simple story with delightful flare that should hold attention spans of any length. Massive amounts of sugar not even required.
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The action blockbuster earned a total of four honours, including Best On-Screen Transformation (Elizabeth Banks) and Best Fight, but the coveted Best Movie title went to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1.
The vampire franchise also claimed victory for Best Kiss - Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart made it four years in a row, but the 22-year-old beauty was left to collect the award on her own as the British hunk was unable to attend.
The wizards weren't left out either - the stars of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 walked away with Best Cast.
Emma Stone's co-stars and friends Viola Davis, Mila Kunis, Jim Carrey and Steve Carell all hailed the actress with funny tributes as she was presented with the inaugural Trailblazer Award, and Johnny Depp was saluted by Aerosmith legends Steven Tyler and Joe Perry as they presented him with the Generation Award.
Depp also showed off his rock 'n' roll credentials by jamming with The Black Keys for a performance of Gold on the Ceiling before collecting his honour, and the actor admitted he was flattered to receive the accolade.
Accepting the Golden Popcorn prize, he joked, "This is quite an amazing honour, truly. It's like a 'Get out of the business' award, basically. It's like, 'Alright, you've done too much...' It's an honour to be presented by these two legends, Steven and Joe, and these up-and-coming legends, The Black Keys, so thank you very much."
Depp's collaboration with The Black Keys was the musical highlight of the night, but rapper Wiz Khalifa showed the crowd at Los Angeles' Gibson Amphitheatre a good time as he performed his new single, Work Hard, Play Hard, and fun. and Janelle Monae opened the show by performing their smash hit We Are Young.
Comedian Russell Brand provided the tongue-in-cheek laughs as the host of the ceremony, while guest presenters included Charlie Sheen, Charlize Theron, Mila Kunis, Jessica Biel and Mark Wahlberg.
The winners of the 2012 MTV Movie Awards are as follows:
Movie of the Year - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Best Male Performance - Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games)
Best Female Performance - Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games)
Breakthrough Performance - Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)
Best Cast - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Best On-Screen Transformation - Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games)
Best Fight - Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson vs. Alexander Ludwig (The Hunger Games)
Best Hero - Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2)
Best Kiss - Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1)
Best On-Screen Dirtbag - Jennifer Aniston (Horrible Bosses)
Trailblazer Award - Emma Stone
Generation Award - Johnny Depp.

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A young Canadian actor, Alexander Ludwig landed the starring role of Will Stanton, a 14-year-old who discovers he is the last hope to save the world in the fantasy adventure "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising" (2007). A moderate hit, the film positioned Ludwig as a rising star, although he maintained his dedication to finishing his college degree. Still, he managed to juggle his schoolwork with his acting career, starring opposite AnnaSophia Robb as a pair of psychically gifted alien twins who team up with goofy cabbie Dwayne Johnson in the big-budget Disney remake "Race to Witch Mountain" (2009). His profile received yet another massive boost when he was cast in "The Hunger Games" (2012) as Cato, the most vicious entrant in the titular fight-to-the-death showdown alongside archer extraordinaire Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence). Tapped to become the world's next blockbuster franchise, the film shattered pre-sale records and earned excellent reviews. Positioned to ascend to even higher Hollywood echelons, Alexander Ludwig impressed with his levelheaded approach to his meteoric rise.